As Helen Ibbitson lay in an operating theatre in Leeds, having just delivered
her first child, she wondered why the baby wasn’t crying. Shortly
afterwards, she was told that her daughter had died. “I was absolutely
shocked, absolutely numb,” Ms Ibbotson said. “Emotionally I shut down, I
couldn’t take it in.”

Betsy Wright was pronounced dead just 25 minutes after she was born, on June
19, last year. Her head got stuck inside her mother’s pelvis and it took
doctors seven attempts to remove her during a Caesarean section.